[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]So many engineers on Tom's - why didn't they do this or that. yawnAs to the cost to recharge at home, it's cheap. If you take the amount of electricity you will consume from your house (average rates across North America) to charge the Volt and compare it to how much fuel you'd have to buy (again, current average prices) to drive as far as the battery will last, then it works out to the equivalent of around 125 MPG.Of course this car is expensive. All new technology is. The significance of this car is the underlying technology and how it can be adapted for future vehicles. GM hit it out of the park with the Volt.[/citation]
The cost to plug in at home is low, the TCO is still quite high... and we will end up subsidizing the "incentives" that make cars like this a decent choice.
I'm all for advances in technology to fill a void, but manipulating a void to fit a technology is not going to help anyone (except the producers of that technology)...